Sentence examples for alarming figure from inspiring English sources

Even Tory commentators welcomed him to the big league, as a considerable, if alarming, figure.

But the most alarming figure is that the 40,000 teachers now find themselves in insecure positions.

In 2013, Unesco reported that Nigeria had the highest number of out-of-school children in the world, with an alarming figure of more than 10.5 million.

To offer a personal admission, it also makes Mr Lamy quite a disruptive, even alarming figure in my private political canon.

In 1998, the final year of what we now think of as the pre-Chàvez era, there were 4,550 murders in Venezuela, already an alarming figure.

How does Mr Stefanski reach such an alarming figure?Historically, CO2 emissions for a given country have followed a hump-shaped pattern alongside income.

These are alarming figures for Romney.

"On the other hand, they've come out with alarming figures before and been proved right".

TOKYO — The alarming figures pour forth daily about radiation emanating from Japan's crippled nuclear power plant.

Home Office minister, James Brokenshire, denied that the alarming figures for the use of mephedrone, which was made illegal in April 2010, demonstrated that the ban had been ineffective.

These are alarming figures, but campaigns to address them have been slow and drug control has received little attention from the mainstream human rights movement.